Hey everyone so I guess i'm kinda back in a slight writing groove again. So I don't have a lot formally planed out for this story line other than vague idea's and where I want to see things go. I'm also not super sure that Purple dust is a thing, But dust by canon is a bit vague and seems to change between volumes so I hope no one takes offense to a slight ass pull in this chapter in regards to the character Hector. Other than that, I once again don't have to much to say about this chapter, except to say once thanks for reading, and I hope to see you all next chapter.


Two uneventful weeks had passed, Ruby, Jaune, and the Gang found themselves riding on board of an airship on the way to the small island of Patch where they would spend the next week with Ruby and Yang's family. Jaune was sitting with a hand on his stomach while Weiss sat next to him. Ruby looked at Jaune with concern, not just because of the air sickness.

Ever since the battle at the Docks Jaune had seemed to give up on grooming entirely, what was a light stubble, was now a a light beard as he leaned back in his seat with his eyes closed, Ruby figured he was waiting on his air sickness medication to kick in.

Weiss didn't look much better, the girl that was once prim an proper had apparently given up on caring how she looked, her hair, previously done up in an almost regal style was tied back into a simple ponytail as she wore the light blue hoodie that became her trade mark, unlike Jaune, this gave her more of a down to earth look, a profound "middle finger" to the family.

In a way, Ruby approved. "So is this going to be your first times at Patch?"

Weiss smiled looking up from her book "Yeah of course it is, I'm from Atlas remember?" she said with a expressionless face

"What about you Jaune?" Ruby turned to Jaune.

Jaune only responded with a thumbs up and a silent prayer to the gods.

"Jeez are you going to be okay? Your turning green." Yang said to Jaune in concern

Jaune gave a wavy hand sign as if he wanted to express uncertainty, it wasn't by mistake he was sitting by a trashcan. Weiss responded by rubbing his back.

Yang smirked to herself as Weiss and Ruby, both of them clearly took a liking to Jaune in different ways, even she had to admit the she valued Jaune as a friend, but had no real interest in the boy "In that way."

Blake leaned over to Yang and asked "So did we ever figure out what Ren and Nora were doing in town a few weeks back?"

Yang snickered and reached over to cover ruby's ears "Hooking up"

Ruby shook off her sister's hand in annoyance "What? why are you covering my ears."

"No reason at all." Yang said smiling as Blake and Weiss chuckled

Blake looked at Jaune who while he was still sitting with his eyes closed had an amused half smile on his face.

"So what's the plan when we land?" Weiss asked Ruby.

"My dad is going to pick us up in his big pickup later in the day after we land, but I thought we'd have some fun in town first!" Ruby said gleefully.

"What kind of fun?" Blake asked.

"Well There's an arcade there where most teens and kids hang out, a few nature trails, stuff like that." Ruby said rubbing her neck.

Yang shook her head "I'll find us stuff to do..."

Most of the group besides Jaune chuckled as the ride continued without incident.


Landing didn't come early enough for Jaune, who after spending a bit of time having a frank discourse with a nearby bathroom toilet on the ground met back up with his team.

"Alright I'm back, what's our plan?" Jaune asked the team as he rejoined the group.

"Lunch" Yang said bluntly "Most of us are hungry and i'm guessing your stomach's empty."

"Fair enough, where at?" Jaune said in reply.

"Oh! Lets go to the awesome pizza shack near here!" Ruby said almost bouncing in place.

"You just want to go there because they also serve fresh baked cookies..." Yang chided her sister.

"What can I say? They are the second best cookies I've ever eaten..." Ruby said slightly embarrassed at being called out.

"What? Since when, what are your new favorites?" Yang asked out loud.

Jaune coughed and looked to the side. "What?" Yang asked looking at Jaune

"You gave me a skull fracture over her new favorite cookies a couple months back" Jaune chided.

"Oh yeaaaaaah" Yang said out loud. "I must of kicked you so hard that I forgot..."

"Classy..." Jaune said in a flat tone.

"I don't know, Pizza is not normally my thing to be honest." Weiss spoke up.

"You'll love it! Or you can order a salad, I don't really care to be honest Weiss." Ruby said with a smirk.

"Blake, What do you say?" Jaune asked her.

"Eh, do they have anything with anchovies?" Blake asked the group.

"Oh Blake, this is an island, we can get anything with fish on it if you want..." Ruby said.

"I'm game then." Blake said.

"Sorry Weiss your kinda outvoted here." Jaune said.

"Wait, you didn't vote though." Weiss said looking at her partner.

"Yeah but that's because I don't care what we eat Weiss." Jaune said with a straight face.

"We need to work on you..." Weiss said poking Jaune in the chest.

"Work on me after we put back in me what the gods took out just now." Jaune said as he started walking with the rest of the group.

Weiss blew a raspberry at her partner as they walked on, Yang and Blake chuckled, Ruby looked a bit grossed out at the vomit joke Jaune just made. All of them, Jaune included paused when someone with a high pitched voice screamed his name.

"What in the He-" Jaune was cut off as a small fast moving object ran directly into his stomach putting him into a stumble.

"Hey we found one of Jaune's kids!" Yang loudly proclaimed, which earned her a light smack upside the head from Ruby.

"V-Violet, what in god's names are you doing here?" Jaune said to the small Dust Eater. The others looked at the small blue haired girl who looked to have been about 5 or 6 as she violently hugged Jaune as tight as she could. it was apparent what she was as she had clear blue scales and small horns that didn't extend nearly as far back as a grown Dust Eater would.

"I'm here playing silly!" The girl now known as Violet said out loud.

"Okay that's fine, but why here?" Jaune said desperately covering her head to hide her horns.

Violet got an offended look on her face and said "Because we live here now stupid!"

Weiss snapped out shock of the small girl tackle hugging her partner, Yang and Ruby instantly flanked the small girl making squeals at her.

"Oh my god she's cute!" Ruby said.

"We must protect this child with out lives!" Yang said.

"Brother Jaune who are these weirdos?" The small girl asked innocently.

"Violet, these are my friends from beacon, Blake, Ruby, Weiss, and Yang." Jaune said pointing at each of them. "Ladies this is my, well now youngest sister Violet."

Violet smiles wide and waived at each other them. "They seem nice!" Before she leaned in close "Are any of them your girlfriend?"

Jaune blinked a few times "Your being weird sis..." Jaune went back mentally to something she said "Wait you said that you lived here now?"

His smiled beamed wide "Yeah, everyone moved here after the bad men burned home down! Uncle Hector was in charge till Mommy woke up!"

Jaune winced a bit "Yeah, that's great sis, who's keeping an eye on you here though?"

Ruby tugged on his Jaune's hood "I think that guy is..." as she pointed behind Jaune.

Jaune turned to look at the tall imposing man with purple hair tied back into a ponytail and a goatee "Jaune..."

Jaune winced "Uncle Hector, it's been a while..."

"Indeed, I see your sister found you just fine, she's a hard one to keep an eye on." He said stepping up to his slightly shorter nephew.

"Yeah... She uh, She's Like that." Jaune said with an unusual meekness in his voice. "Girl's this my uncle on my fathers side Hector Arc."

"Hmm" Hector grunted at them barely bothering to make eye contact.

Jaune stood up in front of his uncle with his hands behind his back not quite making eye contact with his uncle. His uncle sized him up quickly enough "You seem to have grown slightly stronger at that damned school of yours, come with me, we need to talk." Hector commanded.

"Yes sir." Jaune said without hesitation "I'll meet up with you all later." He said to the girls before he walked off.


Minutes later Jaune, and his uncle,huddled around a table in a nearby park while violet was playing nearby, Jaune struggled to make eye contact with his Uncle. Purple Dust Eaters were rare, as Gravity Dust was often a challenge to come across.

"I imagine you know why were talking right now." Hector stated directly.

"Because of my father." Jaune said not looking at his uncle.

"Make eye contact boy, you were raised better than that!" Hector demanded.

Jaune looked directly at his Uncle. "I won't apologize... He was about to murder Beacon students..."

"I'm not asking for your apology boy, I want your explanation." Hector said in an even commanding tone.

"Dad has clearly lost his way, we would have murdered four students, none of them were part of the SDC, or Atlas." Jaune paused to focus his thoughts "All of them were my friends, and i'm afraid he might have been willing to do the same to me..."

Hector leaned back in his seat. "And those students?"

"Three of the 4 came here with me, the fourth I didn't know well." Jaune answered

"And they all knew what you are?" Hector stated accusingly. "They didn't seem shocked by your sister at all."

"They all found out in their own ways..." Jaune answered directly.

"So I am to assume you disagree with your Father's methods? That you no longer care about getting revenge for you sisters?" Hector stated as his eyes bored holes into Jaune as if he was trying to sense his very soul.

"I care about honoring my sisters, I want to honor them by trying to show the world just how wrong they are!" Jaune said narrowing his vision at his uncle "I will not lose my way like my father has!"

Hector laid a simple sword on the table. "You know what this is boy."

"The sword of legend, the blade that ended the great war. Crocea Mors." Jaune answered as he looked at the simple weapon that say before him.

"A blade that can only be wielded by a Dust Eater, but one that we have been unable to wield to it's full potential since the days of your Great Grandfather." Hector stated.

"Your point?" Jaune asked.

"I never had a need for this, but as the elder brother it was my duty to carry it until I decided someone was worthy to carry it. I carried it out of simple obligation, and out of Loyalty to my family name." Hector

"So you believe me to be disloyal? Because I wasn't going to allow my father to turn himself into a butcher?" Jaune barked back.

Hector grimaced. "When your father and I taught you to fight, your father wanted to teach you to simply beat down Grimm, he taught you the motions, but not the reason behind them, I fear that had stunted your development as a warrior." Hector eyed Jaune up and down. "A true warrior needs a purpose, and you seem to have found one, that pleases me, but I have to question this misguided loyalty to those non Dust Eaters you call friends."

"I'm loyal to my friends, and my family. I can be loyal to both." Jaune spoke back.

"If I recall properly, one of those friends is a Schnee Jaune." Hector said raising an eyebrow. "Can you say your loyal to your people if she is counted as a friend?"

"Trust me, I wanted to kill her for a good couple weeks after the attack uncle." Jaune said.

"But not anymore?" Hector asked bluntly.

"No... we spent too much time save each other's asses for me to want that now." Jaune said.

"It seems we have little else to discuss then, I will warn you though, our people are divided on the subject of your actions. Take care around others of our kind." Hector said standing up

"I will, but at the same time, I should at least make time this week to see mom." Jaune said.

"I will make sure that when you do, that you and anyone you choose to bring with you will not be accosted during your visit. I am the current leader of our people for the time being so they will listen to me." Hector said as he turned to walk away.

Jaune watched him for a second before he noticed something "Wait Uncle!" Jaune said as he picked up the sword he left on the table "You forgot this!"

Hector looked at the hand Jaune used to hold the ancient sword, noticing the subtle reaction from the blade as he was handed it, Hector smiled and put a hand on his Nephew's shoulder "Thank you, seems I'm becoming forgetful these days." Hector said as he turned and left.

Jaune didn't quite understand what his Uncle meant by that, but he turned and made plans to return to his friends, but his heart felt heavy at one statement his uncle said. "Uncle Hector said he would have to make sure I'm not accosted if I go to our village..."

Jaune turned to walk back to his friends his mind racing with questions about the path he choose.